I haven't mentioned it on this blog, but my colleagues know I've been serious about learning J2EE and I'd just like to report to them here that it's going phenomenal. After just a few weeks I feel pretty comfortable that I know what's up in the land of Java and Enterprise development.

My new intermediate skills include (in order):
Cocoon component development
Hibernate
Profiling web applications w/ JMeter and Cocoon profiler
JUnit
Apache Ant
Apache Axis

The past weeks have been packed with learning goodness, and I'm pleased to say that the coming months should be equally fulfilling; especially now that I have a handle on the roles of the seemingly 100s of Java technologies.

Christmas is coming up, here are some great gift ideas: my amazon wishlist.